11.00 - 11.25
Title: Grid Based Infrastructure for Distributed Medical Imaging
Speaker: Carl Kesselman [University of Southern California]


11.30 - 11.55
Title: Hybrid Networking – What’s in GLIF for you
Speaker: Eric-Jan Bos [SURFnet]
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12.00 - 12.25
Title: Tsunami Disaster 2004, A Developing Strategy for Future Disaster Management and Recovery
Speakers: Hina Sharma, T. Dev Kumar [Sangha]
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12.30 – 13.55 Lunch

14.00 - 14.25
Title: CanalAVIST: A venue for tele-lecture collaboration on TEIN2
Speaker: Kanchana Kanchanasut [Asian Institute for Technology, Thailand]
Abstract

14.30 - 14.55
Title: VinaRENs Deployment and Collaboration Activities in Vietnam
Speaker: Dr Ta Ba Hung [National Centre for Scientific and Technological Information, VN]
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15.00 - 15.25
Title: e-VLBI: a real-time telescope of intercontinental dimensions
Speakers: Huib Jan van Langevelde (1), Arpad Szomoru (1), Xiaoyu Hong (2), Xiuzhong Zhang (2) [(1) Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe (JIVE) & (2) Shanghai Astronomical Observatory]
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15.30 15.55 eVLBI demo during tea/coffee break location to be advised

16.00 - 16.20
Title: Global Competitiveness and Regional Innovation - using the Grid to "close the gap between Business, Research and Resources"
this presentation will include a demonstration using Grid nodes in the UK, China and Australia and visualisation of the analysed data
Speaker: Ashley Lloyd (1, 2), Terry Sloan (1) Baoping Yan (3) [(1) The University of Edinburgh, (2) Curtin University of Technology, (3) CNIC, Chinese Academy of Science]
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16.25 17.00
Title: Collaborative Research Projects in Australia
Speaker: Greg Wickham [AARNet]
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17.05 - 17.30
Title: Global Collaboration for THEOS Data Transfer
Speaker: Pakorn Apaphant [GISTA, Thailand]
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Carl Kesselman Bio:

Dr. Carl Kesselman is Fellow in the Information Sciences Institute at the University of Southern California. He is the Director of the Center for Grid Technologies at the Information Sciences Institute and a Research Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southern California. He received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Los Angeles, a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California, and Bachelors degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University at Buffalo. Dr. Kesselman also serves as Chief Scientist of Univa Corporation, a company he founded with Globus co-founders Ian Foster and Steve Tuecke. 
Dr. Kesselman's current research interests are all aspects of Grid computing, including basic infrastructure, security, resource management, high-level services and Grid applications. He is the author of many significant papers in the field. Together with Dr. Ian Foster, he initiated the Globus Project(tm), one of the leading Grid research projects. The Globus project has developed the Globus Toolkit(r), the de facto standard for Grid computing.  
Dr. Kesselman received the 1997 Global Information Infrastructure Next Generation Internet award, the 2002 R&D 100 award, the 2002 R&D Editors choice award, the Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer and the 2002 Ada Lovelace Medal from the British Computing Society for significant contributions to information technology. Along with his colleagues Ian Foster and Steve Tuecke, he was named one of the top 10 innovators of 2002 by InfoWorld Magazine. In 2003, he and Dr. Foster were named by MIT Technology Review as the creators of one of the "10 technologies that will change the world." In 2006 Dr. Kesselman received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Amsterdam.

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Eric-Jan Bos Abstract: Hybrid Networking – What’s in GLIF for you

For most modern IP routed networks that have been built so far, the architecture had not changed much since their first generations. The traditional approach to evolving the network was to create faster pipes and install bigger routers, whilst at the same time new IP features were added to these networks. With the concept of the "hybrid network", an optical and packet switching infrastructure, high demanding applications are put onto the photonic network directly, while the many-to-many data flows continue to be handled by the routed network. The network organizations and user world wide, that support and contribute to the hybrid network model have come together in the Global Lambda Integrated Facility (GLIF). This talk will teach you all about GLIF and the Technical Issue Working Group (Tech) of GLIF. 

Eric-Jan Bos Bio: Erik-Jan Bos has been working for SURFnet for more than 20 years, and during these years he saw many network generations and technologies pass by. SURFnet6, the world's first nationwide optical and packet switching infrastructure, is built upon SURFnet's 6000+ km of dark fiber infrastructure and uses powerful and flexible photonic technology. Erik-Jan is co-chair of the GLIF Tech WG. As of January 2007 Erik-Jan is managing director at SURFnet.

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Hina Sharma, T Dev Kumar Abstract:  Tsunami Disaster 2004

It was a devastating earthquake off the coast of Sumatra in the Indonesian archipelago, of magnitude 9.0 on the Richter Scale, followed by one of magnitude 7.3 on the Richter Scale 81 kilometers off Pulo Kunji, Great Nicobar, India, and nearly 115 aftershocks that resulted in massive tsunamis in several countries in South Asia and East Africa — Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, Thailand, Somalia, Myanmar, Maldives, Malaysia, Tanzania, Bangladesh, Kenya and Seychelles. The tsunami left in its wake a tale of death, destruction and tragedy. The waves traveled nearly 5,000 kilometers, and in some places reached heights of more than 10 meters. It is estimated that more than 222,000 people lost their lives and approximately 40,000 people were missing. Indonesia had the maximum deaths, followed by Sri Lanka and India.  

In Andaman, Port Blair, after enjoying the Christmas eve the people tide were in a deep sleep when the earthquake shook them badly and made them rush out of their houses. We had never experienced such devastating earthquake, before the people could understand and get stable the killer waves hit most of the costal areas of these Islands, Living behind cries and tears. Most of the government departments and school's were situated near the costal area's with suffered a great lost. The communication system of these Islands was totally destroyed making them isolated from each other.  

Who would have thought that the Development Communication Network (DCN) was destined to play a very crucial role in so a near future when it was setup by A&N Admn. In July, 2004. The DCN Network is joint venture of the A &N Administration with ISRO, established with the objective to support the Skill Development Programmes of Vocational Education run by Polytechnic for school dropouts and unemployed youths in different Islands through the extension centers. The classroom teaching at extension center was being supplemented by lectures / demonstrations through video conferencing facility with the help of DCN.  

Three extension centers at Rangat, Campbell Bay & Hut Bay were functioning full fledged for vocational education and three other stations were established at industries department in Diglipur, Sr. Sec. School in Mayabunder and AC office in Kamorta. All these centers were put on test use from the main hub at Polytechnic and Secretariat.  

Since VSAT connectivity is the mainstay of this communication network it has a wide range of applicability, usefulness during disaster for maintaining communication is one amongst them. This function was fully tested after the fateful day of 26th December 2004, when the massive earthquake hit these islands which was followed by the devastating Tsunami.

The post- calamity activities were taken up on war footing by the technical personnel of the Polytechnic despite the fact that equipments were damaged because of earthquake. The system was made operational in less than 24 hours by me and one of the security staff of the institute and the connectivity could be established with Kamorta. which was ably supported by Dr. Naveen, Veterinary Surgeon. In fact after being cut off from the rest of the world for 24 hours Dr. Naveen was overwhelmed after seeing us on the other side. At last for the people of Kamorta group of islands saw a ray of hope.

After the persistent effort, Campbell Bay Center was also brought on line on 27th December with the help of Space Application Center, Ahmadabad. It was a rare show of sincerity and sense of duty by Shri. Ram Prasad, Station in-charge, Campbell Bay, which despite loss of his brother at Indira point he continued manning the station undeterred against all physical and mental odds of the situation.

The news of establishment of the above links at the two most devastated islands spread like wild fire and the anxious relatives thronged to Polytechnic and Secretariat control room for information of their nearest ones in those islands. On 28th December, Rangat & Diglipur centers were also connected in spite of total power shutdown in those areas.

However, the real challenge before the DCN team was to establish link at Car Nicobar and Hut Bay centers since communication was almost non-existent from those islands. Based on the report it was assessed that the connectivity with Extension Center at Car Nicobar cannot be established as it had been totally washed away. A high-level team of ISRO reached here on 29th Dec. and went to Hut Bay to restore the connectivity. They also went to Campbell Bay, which was marooned, to set right the erratic behavior of the system. The entire Hut Bay area was marooned.

Information started pouring in from those islands regarding the whereabouts of the inhabitants to the eager relatives in Port Blair and vise versa. The Relief Commissioners and the Heads of the various departments also used this effectively to assess the quantum of damage that had taken place in the disaster.

This was just the beginning of the needs for immediate disaster management and recovery. We will explore the complex difficulties of communication and coordination of efforts as well as a few points for dialogue and future improvement.

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Kanchana Abstract: CanalAVIST:  A venue for tele-lecture collaboration on TEIN2

CanalAVIST is a joint project between AVIST and ASTRENA under the auspices of the ASEAN Committee for Science and Technology to provide channels for seamless education, teaching, training, conferencing, lectures and talks throughout the ASEAN countries for ASEAN researchers and students. 
The ASEAN Virtual Institute of Science and Technology (AVIST) was set up by ministerial approval in 2005, hosted in AIT Bangkok Thailand. Since then AVIST has conducted various online e-learning courses to a large number of participants throughout ASEAN. 
The ASEAN Science and Technology Research and Education Network Alliance (ASTRENA) was mooted in 1998 and implemented in 2006. Since then, two ASTRENA meetings have been carried out, ASTRENA-1 in Brunei, March 2006 and ASTRENA-2 in Manila, January 2007. Other ASTRENA associated meetings have also been conducted. 
 

Ta Ba Hong Abstract: VinaREN’s Deployment and Collaboration Activities in Vietnam 

Vietnam Research and Education Network (VinaREN) has been officially launched on 6-8 June, 2006. VinaREN has been strongly supported by the Government and R&E community in the country. A VinaREN development project has been approved by Ministry of Science & Technology. The project aims to provide the national advanced information infrastructure for R&E communities and strengthen research capacity and collaboration activities for societal benefits. The main objectives of the VinaREN development project are as follows: Building up VinaREN backbone across the country with NOCs in Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh city, Da Nang, Hue and Can Tho; VinaREN connection for 50 leading R&E institutions, hospitals by the end of 2008; Connecting VinaREN with other NRENs through TEIN-2, Gloriad, APAN, ...; Promoting advanced network applications.

At present time, a number of 20 universities, research institutes and hospitals have become VinaREN members. They are mainly connected in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh city. From the beginning, VinaREN members are actively involved in collaboration activities. A number of national seminars and workshops has been organized in the country to promote TEIN-2 and VinaREN. Video conferencing, e-learning, e-health were effectively and efficiently used in universities, hospitals. TEIN-2 and VinaREN are also mobilized to actively support weather forecast services as well as disasters management.

The collaboration activities between Vietnamese R&E communities and their overseas partners in the fields of medicine, earth monitoring, higher education and management have been enlarged thanks to bilateral and multilateral co-operation in framework of TEIN-2 and APAN.

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eVLBI Abstract: e-VLBI: a real-time telescope of intercontinental dimensions

Largely funded by the EC, the European VLBI network is undergoing a revolutionary change enabled by the most modern networking techniques. In Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI), the data from remote radio telescopes are combined in a correlator, a special purpose supercomputer, to render an image of the sky with unsurpassed resolution. Traditionally this is done by shipping magnetic media to the central facility, introducing long delays between observations and actual data-processing. 
In e-VLBI, telescopes are connected to the correlator through fibre networks at data-rates that currently reach 512 Mb/s per telescope. This allows astronomers to make real-time detections, yielding immediate feedback on the success of experiments. During the past few years the EVN has successfully made e-VLBI into an operational facility by upgrading its equipment for real-time use and getting the “last-mile” connections to the telescopes in place. Several ongoing developments address the special boundary conditions for sustained highbandwidth data transport. An increasing number of telescopes are connected via dedicated light-paths. 
The Chinese telescopes of Shanghai and Urumqi are full members of the EVN with new telescopes in Miyun and Kunming nearing completion. Such long baselines introduce new challenges to e-VLBI, for example due to the extremely long RTTs on these connections. These issues will be discussed and a live demo will be organised in which data from telescopes in China, Australia and Europe will be combined at the EVN data processor in Dwingeloo, the Netherlands. A real-time display will show the progress of the observations and statistics on transfer rates and data quality. 
 

Greg Wickham Abstract:  Collaborative Research Projects in Australia

Within Australia the two research projects that drive data networks the hardest are also those that involve strong international collaborations. These projects are Australia’s involvement in EXPReS (JIVE, Express Production Real-time e-VLBI Service) and the ATLAS experiment (CERN, Large Hadron Collider). 
For big science experiments the primary networking requirement ultimately comes down to having sufficient bandwidth to support collaborations. Into Australia there are two international R&E data paths available. The TEIN 2 sponsored 4 x STM1 circuits (Singapore to Perth), and SXTransport (2 x 10G circuits from Sydney to Hawai’i and North America). Unfortunately for high throughput applications the only viable data path is to use SX Transport that terminates in Sydney. 
For Australia’s involvement with EXPReS the final demonstration is to transport live streams from 3 telescopes operated by the ATNF (Australian Telescope National Facility, CSIRO) back to JIVE at 512Mbit/sec using light paths. Light paths are not as ubiquitous as the routed R&E network hence the path back to Jive was dictated by the availability of resources across the globe. The resultant path involved heading East, from Australia, to North America and then on to Europe. The resultant length of this path is that the goodput of un-tuned gigabit TCP connections can be poor. 
In Australia, the Tier 2 storage facility for ATLAS is at the University of Melbourne. As ATLAS will be a continuing experiment it’s necessary to provision a permanent solution so that data can be continuously transferred from the Taiwan Tier 1 to the local Tier 2. Due to lightpath capacity into Australia it was determined that the preferred solution would be to transfer the data over the existing routed R&E network. Again though, the latency of transferring data from Taipei to Australia using SX Transport adversely impacts overall goodput. 
This presentation will provide an overview of Australia’s involvement in both of these projects. In particular, describing the challenges and solutions of maintaining high throughput communications over inter-continental networks.

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Ashley Lloyd Abstract:  Global Competitiveness and Regional Innovation

....Europe cannot compete unless it becomes more inventive, reacts better to consumer needs and preferences and innovates more. Our future depends on innovation
European Union Regional Policy
September 2006.

Growth in the competitiveness of economically associated but geographically distributed States such as those found within the EU, the US and across Asia, requires a balance between the natural desire to build local R&D intensity and the increasing need for infrastructure that connects with global markets - i.e. to close the gap between Business, Research and Resources (EU Regional Policy, 2006).

This notion of clustering is essentially no different to Adam Smiths observations of the inter-relatedness of trades in The Wealth of Nations (1776), brought to a wider audience by Michael Porter in The Competitive Advantage of Nations (1990). Today the encouragement of cluster formation is common feature of regional policies across the globe; however, the resulting clusters often lack visibility or the critical mass required to advertise their existence and communicate their ideas to other States, let alone participate in global markets (EU, 2007).

Investment in cooperative global ICT infrastructure such as the Grid offers the promise of virtualisation of processes within and between organisations that would allow local clusters to compete globally without requiring the scale or intensity implied by traditional industry development patterns.

Unfortunately, the relationship between investment in ICT and the competitiveness of specific organisational processes is vexed, with Robert Solow, the Nobel Laureate in Economics, commenting in 1987 on a productivity paradox that: we see the computer age everywhere except in the productivity statistics.

The paradox was apparently resolved by Brynjolfsson and Hitt (1996), with ICT investments correlating strongly with productivity, especially where organisations were decentralised. However recent data allowing analysis of productivity before and after the investment cycles driven by Y2K and the dotcom boom and bust, have lead the respected economist Robert Gordon to defend his earlier argument that computers and the Internet have had a low impact on overall productivity (Gordon, 2000; McAfee, 2006).

In such an environment, justifying investments in a global hardware and software infrastructure that provides dependable, consistent, pervasive, and inexpensive access to high-end computational capabilities (Foster and Kesselman, 1999) requires a much clearer understanding of the relationship between performance at all levels of the stack from network capability to an organisational capacity for innovation.

The required technical capability is being demonstrated in multiple Grid and eScience programmes across the globe that have supported large-scale highly decentralised collaborations. These include the eVLBI collaborations in Radio- Astronomy, however as Szalay (2006) notes, such data carries little of the sensitivities associated with sharing socio-economic data, which is core to any interaction with global markets.

This raises questions as to the manner in which Grid and eScience technologies may be transferred to businesses that seek to become more innovative, more competitive and hence more productive by closing the gap between Business, Research and Resources.

The presentation explores this question by drawing on the experiences of having established a grid collaboratory to combine and analyse socio-economic data drawn from global markets in order to feed organisational innovation processes managed within a single secure Grid environment.

This Grid first connected Curtin Business School (Western Australia) and Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre (Scotland) in 2003, was extended to include the Computer Network and Information Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2005, and continues to develop in the light of opportunities offered by infrastructures such as TEIN2.

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Pakorn Apaphant Abstract:

Thailand Earth Observation System, THEOS is a stand-alone earth observation system. It will provide imagery in the visible and near infrared region of the electromagnetic spectrum. The panchromatic image has ground sampling distance of 2m with 22 km. swath width. The multispectral image has ground sampling distance of 15 m. covering 90 km. swath width. THEOS is designed for five years in orbit and it will be launched to a sun-synchronous orbit at 832 km altitude in late 2007.  

From abovementioned properties, it can be simply foreseen that THEOS will be very useful for several applications worldwide. Natural disaster management and sustainable development are for example. Except for local ground stations, Thailand will also coordinate with a north pole station to ensure required data can be well prepared for users worldwide. In the case of emergency service, strong global collaboration is necessary. A robust network such as TIEN2 can play a very important role for near real time data transfer. This presentation will provide background information of this satellite, its usages, and a plan for near real time data transfer.